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bossymarmalade) wrote2004-02-24 12:41 pm
bossymarmalade) wrote2004-02-24 12:41 pm
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take me here, under the disco ball
Guess what? This morning I actually fast-forwarded through last night's episode of The OC so I could, for once, get the events written down in some semblance of order. Go me!
Harbour High. Ryan and Seth stroll around and Seth asks what's on everybody's mind; is Ryan still dating Marissa, or are they broken up? Ryan demurs and says that they're gonna try to be friends, but Seth doubts they can maintain it since all they've done since Ryan got to the OC and found Marissa lying drunk in her driveway was eye each other lustily.
Summer doesn't believe it either. Personally, I can't believe Marissa left the house wearing that outfit, which seems to be a black tube-top dress over a long-sleeved white jersey. She looks like she's trying out to be Liesel in The Sound of Music. Marissa mumbles thickly about how she *supposes* it's up to her to extend the first hand because of the whole Oliver thing. Hey, don't put yourself out, baby. Summer mentions that she can't really see herself talking to Seth much at school because he's, like, geek!Seth in the light of day, whereas she gets lothario!Seth in bed. The idea of this makes me laugh so hard my head hurts.
Ryan gets a phone call from Theresa; she's gonna be in the neighbourhood for the rest of the week, and they make plans to see each other in the evening. Let me take a moment to reiterate how much I adore the chemistry between these two -- Ryan is so relaxed and happy with the girl! Does my heart good.
The credits roll. My sister weakly asks, "could you change the channel?" Perplexed, I lower the volume and she says, "ohgod THANK YOU," and I realize she just couldn't stand the opening music. Caaaaaaaaliforrrrrrrrniaaaaaaaa!!! Here we COMMMMMMMMMMMME!!!! Yeah, I don't like it either.
Back to the show, and the girlz and boyz bump into each other in the hallway. It's awkward all-round and a double helping for Mama Anorexia, who looks as though her skeleton is trying to jump out through her eyeballs. Summer fritzes off with some boy who asks her to run the kissing booth with him. I don't remember what this kissing booth was even for. At any rate, Summer pretty much ignores Seth while she's talking to the guy, and really, I don't know why Seth is so surprised. Hasn't he seen The Breakfast Club? Doesn't he know that things go back to normal after detention and Summer needs to maintain her popularity status? After all, her popularity is one of the things he found attractive about her in the first place, innit? Feh.
Ryan and Marissa stare at each other, then bob uncomfortably from side to side. Ryan isn't inquiring as to Marissa's health or well-being or initiating discussion of her family or love-life, so she is at a clear loss for what to talk about, those being the only subjects that exist in her world. By the time she finally decides to say hello, Ryan claims he's late for class and takes off. Boo-yah!
Summer also takes off on Seth when he tries to confront her about ignoring him in front of her cooler friend, and who should saunter out of a nearby classroom than Anna! Wearing a sheer pink tea-cosy with pink bows on it. She's just back from a visit to her hometown of Pittsburgh and surprisingly, she's kind of nice and normal. She's much better as a friend than a sexy-old-lady-inside girlfriend, I think, and her waggling-head problem seems to have been fixed. Really, the interaction between them is really nice and relaxed and I forget my burning hatred of Anna for a bit.
Over with The Adults, Caleb tells Kiki that some friend who works for them -- "Uncle Sean" -- is in dire legal straits for getting drunk and stumbling into a room he shouldn't have been in. Kiki's bemused, probably because she's wearing a white suit with a bright teal-and-black *thing* under it. Seriously, it looks like a halter top made entirely of wrapping paper and tangled fishnet, and it's just so completely wrong I feel embarrassed looking at it. Caleb says he wants Sandy to handle Unca Sean's case, and Kirsten, thank God, tells him that he can ask Sandy himself. I'm glad they're easing up a little on her doing everything Caleb tells her to.
While Anna stalks Seth in the Swanky Student Lounge and dogs him for letting Summer ignore him, Julie Cooper arrives at Harbour High. She strolls on over to Luke's locker and they talk for a bit, him making big cow-eyes at her and her soaking the adoration in until Jimmy comes up. They're there for a parent-teacher conference, and Luke excuses himself in the clumsiest way possible. If Jimmy weren't gifted with a big soft cheese instead of a brain, I'd be worried that he'd be suspicious that something was going on.
Ryan and the World's Best Conversationalist meet up in the Lounge; they hem and haw and finally break down and confess they didn't think that being just friends would be so hard. We should hang out, Ryan offers. Sure, Marissa says, how about tonight? Ryan says he's busy tonight, and Marissa, persistent and understanding girl that she is, is ready to forget the whole thing because Ryan OBVIOUSLY wants nothing to do with her if he can't drop everything to hang out with her. Before she can pull out her party trick, Ryan hurriedly bleats that he's free after school, leading Marissa to say that's more convenient for her anyway because she's supposed to have dinner with her dad. Okay, so if you already had dinner plans, why the fuck were you so put out by Ryan having plans? Arrrrrgh!!! Die! DIE!
Over at The Zodiac (no, I'm never gonna stop calling the restaurant that), Sandy is eating with a contemplative look on his face. I take a moment to recover. Then Caleb comes in and insults Mama Cohen's meatloaf, and I want to take a shovel to Caleb's head. He sits and sketches out the Unca Sean Follies and asks Sandy to take the case; giddy with glee over Caleb asking *him* for a favour, Sandy accepts a copy of the particulars and says only that he'll make some calls and get back to Caleb, who then begs for meatloaf.
Meeting with Dr. Kim over (can these shows never come up with another Korean surname?), Julie Cooper takes a moment to thank Jimmy for doing a good job raising Marissa, because she apparently is getting a good report at school. Jimmy is flabbergasted, and Julie goes on to explain that she's no longer with Caleb but is in a good place in her life. Jimmy continues looking gobsmacked and I tune him out in disgust.
Seth & Summer are in bed, snuggling on her black sheets, and Seth brings up the whole ignoring-in-public thing again. Summer frantically launches into paralleling their relationship to Bennifer, claiming that if they begin having public displays of affection, they'll end up making a flop movie and breaking off the engagement. Seth is dumbfounded by this flurry of insanity and manages to say that since Summer does not have a value clothing line and perfume named after her and he's not playing Daredevil, such public recrimination is not likely, but Summer has her mind made up.
In the Casa del Cohen, Bonyface is trying to play the infamous ninja video game with Ryan and failing miserably. All those surprised by this revelation, go stand in the corner with a dunce cap that says "character non-development" on it. She gives up and then the elusive Rosa shows Theresa in. Rosa is smiling at Theresa like she's the Virgin of Guadalupe, which partly makes me cringe and partly makes me warm inside. Marissa, naturally, begins jerking her limbs all over the sofa and does her party trick. It's just not an episode of the OC without at least one instance of Marissa Storming Off in a Huff!
In the kitchen, Kirsten is wearing her hair pulled back and fastened with a barrette, which is too precious for words. Sandy tries to figure out what, if any, work Unca Sean does for her father's company; Kirsten gives vague job descriptions like him being their "liason" for construction companies and unions and whatnot.
We visit a new location next; the Mermaid Inn, which is tackiness to the umpth level. Just the place for Julie Cooper to shack up with Luke, who is gushingly happy to be there and says all the usual things about how he wishes they could stay there forever. But it is not meant to be, as Julie Cooper gets a frantic phone call from the not-appearing-in-this-episode Caitlyn, who has left her diorama in the house and Luke has to get to school in time for homeroom. The mention of "homeroom" snaps Julie Cooper out of her post-coital daze and she tells Luke that they can't keep doing this. His poor Uruk-hai heart! It's so full of LOVE!! But leave he must, and as he goes down the balcony he passes Theresa, who's staying in the room next to their love nest.
At school, Ryan has lunch with Marissa. She does perhaps the most natural delivery I've ever seen her give, saying that it would've been good if Ryan had told her that Theresa was coming over the night before. I don't agree with that -- what business is it of hers? -- but for once she's not saying it like an accusation and that's good to see. Elsewhere, Anna (wearing a cream princess blouse with pearly buttons over a striped pink long-sleeved jersey, ugh) tells Seth that if he ever wants this relationship with Summer to last, he needs to take a stand. She curses herself for always falling into the role of advisor for "How To Get the Girl Who's Hotter than Me" and to that I say, amen, Anna.
The Zodiac. Sandy comes in and Unca Sean is already there, just sitting and drinking. From the size and rosiness of this guy's nose, he was weaned on whiskey. He starts boasting about how he knew Robert Mitchum and Sandy takes a drink, and then strokes one appreciative hand down his tie. I don't know how to explain the EXCEEDING HOTNESS of that gesture, but suffice it to say that my sister and I both made the same choked, stunned noise and were then useless for the rest of the scene. Plus, he says "slainte" and there are no words to tell you how many of my synapses that melted. As I gather, the room Unca Sean "stumbled into" was one that held records that would be of use to the Newport Group, and Sandy wants nothing to do with the case. Unca Sean's piggy little eyes turn calculating and he smarmily says that if he goes to trial, there's a lot about Caleb's company that could slip out on the stand. The scene ends and my sister asks me to rewind back to THE TIE. I happily comply.
Ryan and Theresa are strolling along the beach, eating ice-cream bars and talking about how different everything is here from back in Chino. They bump and jostle each other and chat and are pretty and sun-soaked and lord, I love them. So much. Over in Summer's room, she pressures him for sex and he decides to go on strike. She is completely floored by this. Sweetie, Seth's gone this far in his life without getting any action; he's pretty much primed for this kind of protest move.
When Ryan gets home from the beach that evening, he finds Eddie, Theresa's boyfriend, sitting out front in his pickup. And when I say "out front", I mean in front of the actual house, in the driveway. "So he's just been there this whole time?" Lori says, confused. "And none of the Cohens came out to see what was going on?" I have no answer for her.
Eddie talks with Ryan for a while; he went to see Trey, this house is amazing, Ryan looks good, and oh, by the way -- has Ryan seen his fiancé, Theresa? Ryan is stunned rigid, but covers for Theresa which I'm glad about. He assures Eddie that if he hears from her, he'll call the poor schtup, and then when Eddie disconsolately leaves Ryan goes to confront Theresa. She just needed some time to sort herself out, she says defiantly, but over the course of the scene you can see Theresa's self-confidence erode and it's really so sad. Eddie, she says, has a good job and can offer her a stable future with him; Ryan protests that at seventeen, she's too young to get married, and Theresa says, "and what's gonna be so different in five years?" Eddie loves her, she says, but the problem is -- she's not in love with him. Poor thing.
In order to cheer her up, Ryan offers to take her out to dinner, warning her, "and don't try to tell me you're not hungry." "You kidding?" Theresa says. "I'm starving!" And now she's won my heart forever. I can't say enough how much I adore these two together. And you can bet your ass she's gonna eat more than a slice of lime for dinner.
Two hours after his initial declaration of strike, Summer shows up at the Casa and tries to convince Seth that if she touches him up, it wouldn't be considered him crossing his own picket line. Seth, however, displays more fortitude than I would've credited him for and stands strong. Good boy!
Next door, Caleb shows up at Julie Cooper's door in the middle of the night, bearing a bunch of flowers and a bunch of platitudes about how they both have needs, and they both need to acknowledge those needs and make them work together, and Julie Cooper's smile upon first seeing him slowly fades. "Is this," she says incredulously, "a booty call?" Caleb channels Barbara Walters talking to Justin about beat...boxing and asks, "What's a...boo-ty call?" Incensed, Julie Cooper throws back his crappy "bunch of mini-carns from Ralph's" and shuts the door to the tune of her cussing him out. Ahahahaha! I fucking love Julie Cooper. She's the best.
Dinner at the Casa. Kirsten is patiently transferring salad from THREE ENORMOUS TRAYS into one big wooden salad bowl; there are two other trays of what look like either shredded red cabbage or red onions on the kitchen island, as well as a trough of spaghetti and two *more* trays filled with breadsticks. What, is Hailey coming to dinner? Clearly still perturbed by his meeting earlier, Sandy asks her if Unca Sean's legendary persuasiveness is carried out with well-chosen words, or with a baseball bat, but he never gets an answer because the kids come in, Theresa in tow.
Over with the Coopers, Marissa is lying disconsolately on the sofa. It reminds me for some reason of Mischa's video with Enrique, probably because her eyes look simultaneously ringed with black and smeared with Vaseline. She's moping over Ryan, of course, and wearing a blouse that even Nancy Sinatra would have rejected, all silky and covered in multicoloured blotches. Jimmy tells her that if she wants to be more than friends with Ryan, she should let him know; with her usual complete lack of understanding that sometimes people need time apart to sort things out, Marissa jumps up and grabs her coat. Le sigh.
She barges in at the Casa and of course, her face falls about a mile when she sees Theresa at the table. My hatred for Marissa rises about sixteen notches because Theresa had been in the middle of a story about her and Ryan when they were sixteen and being all dressed up and him falling down or something, but of course once La Calavera arrives, there's no more story. One of my friends once wrote a character saying, "when I enter a room, conversation dies, and I want to die with it." Marissa has the first part down perfectly; now if only she'd graduate to the second. And then DO IT.
The next morning, Seth waltzes into the poolhouse and sits Ryan down for a little man-to-man talk. Telenovelas and personal experience have learned him that a love triangle is no good; it's pointy, Seth says wisely, and pointy edges hurt people. Ryan's not quite sure what to say to this baffling piece of intel, but it's evident that he thinks some kind of decision needs to be made as well.
Sandy informs Caleb that he won't be taking the case, since he can't defend Unca Sean snooping in other people's files for the benefit of the Newport Group. Caleb intimates that his company has a lot of dirty laundry that Sean might reveal, and Sandy tells him that's his own problem -- until Caleb points out that Kirsten is #2 at the Newport Group, and she'd be in just as much trouble. Caleb Nichol is absolutely disgusting. First he wants Kirsten to break up with Julie Cooper for him, and now he's blackmailing Sandy into getting Unca Sean off because Caleb's shady dealings could take his own daughter down? Ugh. Julie Cooper got out while the getting was good, man.
In the Swank Lounge, Anna is apparently playing Pac-Man. I say "apparently" because while it's been a few months since I played an arcade game, I'm pretty sure that you need BOTH HANDS to successfully play Pac-Man. Summer approaches and timidly tells Anna that she didn't plan it this way, which isn't quite true but then I don't see why Anna's so pissed off because she got Seth in a kind of underhanded way to begin with. She takes Summer to task for ignoring Seth, and Summer confesses that she's terrified Seth with dump her just like all guys do, and if they make their relationship public then her eventual humiliation at his hands will be public too and she can't take that. Oh, she's so sweet. Poor Summer.
At this point, Julie Cooper (in pigtails and a pink cap, with fabulous sunglasses) calls Luke up. "And this," she tells him in an utterly satisfied tone, "is definitely a booty call." Luke couldn't be more excited and scrambles over himself to get there. How long is the average lunch break at Harbour High, anyhow? Luke has time to hie his lusty ass down to the Mermaid Inn, get it on with Julie Cooper, and get back in time for Chem? And apparently, Marissa also has time to head down to the Mermaid for a chat with Theresa (how did Marissa find out where Theresa was staying, anyway?) with no problem. Weh?
Ryan goes back to Chino to see Eddie, since his conscience is twinging him about lying to the guy earlier. He 'fesses up to Eddie that Theresa is hiding out in the OC, trying to come to a decision about the whole engagement situation. Eddie is distressed, because although Theresa didn't give him a concrete answer when he presented her with a ring, he truly does love her and wants her to be his wife. He says as much to Ryan and then asks to know Ryan's intentions, which Ryan can't give him. Eddie simply and nobly informs Ryan that he intends to fight for Theresa's affections, if need be, and goes back to his work. Ryan stares after him, visibly shaken and perhaps in love with Eddie himself at this point.
Marissa whines to Theresa about how she needs to know if there's anything going on between her and Ryan, blah blah it's all about me, go back to Chino where you belong, blah blah. Theresa tells Marissa about being sort-of-engaged to Eddie, which chills the bitch out a little bit, and it's pretty much settled between them that Theresa's going back to get married to Eddie and that the path for Marissa to Ryan will be clear. Content, Marissa leaves, narrowly missing her mother going into the room next to Theresa's.
At the kissing booth, Seth pushes his way to the front and painstakingly climbs up onto the booth, telling Summer that if she doesn't kiss him now and let everybody know that they're dating, they might as well call it quits. The jocks scoff, the cheerleaders titter, the nerds look astounded. Summer looks adorable and conflicted in her little pink-blue-and-yellow striped top, and her hesitance makes sense because although Seth's gesture is, on television, very sweet and brave, when I translate that back to *actual* high school? I would've been just as derisive as the rest of the kids watching. I mean, who *does* that kind of thing?
Anyway, Summer can't resist her emo geek and climbs up on the booth, kissing him to the confusion of most of the students, the horror of the nerds, and the instant adoration of the cheerleaders. They are so cute, dear god help me!!
Ryan gets back into town, the long and tortured drive from Chino over, and goes to see Theresa. She's calm and sad, he's agitated, and he tells her he went to see Eddie and the guy's so much in love with Theresa, she should really go back to him. Theresa agrees. Ryan tells her, "but I don't want you to go back," and yeah, it's all there in his voice because she's something good from back home and he's confused by what he's feeling, and when they kiss it's so hot and sweet that I want to personally tie a Buick to Marissa's ankle and drop her in the Mariana Trench. Not that I don't want to do that all the time, but now I want it like heroin. Viva Telemundo!
Harbour High. Ryan and Seth stroll around and Seth asks what's on everybody's mind; is Ryan still dating Marissa, or are they broken up? Ryan demurs and says that they're gonna try to be friends, but Seth doubts they can maintain it since all they've done since Ryan got to the OC and found Marissa lying drunk in her driveway was eye each other lustily.
Summer doesn't believe it either. Personally, I can't believe Marissa left the house wearing that outfit, which seems to be a black tube-top dress over a long-sleeved white jersey. She looks like she's trying out to be Liesel in The Sound of Music. Marissa mumbles thickly about how she *supposes* it's up to her to extend the first hand because of the whole Oliver thing. Hey, don't put yourself out, baby. Summer mentions that she can't really see herself talking to Seth much at school because he's, like, geek!Seth in the light of day, whereas she gets lothario!Seth in bed. The idea of this makes me laugh so hard my head hurts.
Ryan gets a phone call from Theresa; she's gonna be in the neighbourhood for the rest of the week, and they make plans to see each other in the evening. Let me take a moment to reiterate how much I adore the chemistry between these two -- Ryan is so relaxed and happy with the girl! Does my heart good.
The credits roll. My sister weakly asks, "could you change the channel?" Perplexed, I lower the volume and she says, "ohgod THANK YOU," and I realize she just couldn't stand the opening music. Caaaaaaaaliforrrrrrrrniaaaaaaaa!!! Here we COMMMMMMMMMMMME!!!! Yeah, I don't like it either.
Back to the show, and the girlz and boyz bump into each other in the hallway. It's awkward all-round and a double helping for Mama Anorexia, who looks as though her skeleton is trying to jump out through her eyeballs. Summer fritzes off with some boy who asks her to run the kissing booth with him. I don't remember what this kissing booth was even for. At any rate, Summer pretty much ignores Seth while she's talking to the guy, and really, I don't know why Seth is so surprised. Hasn't he seen The Breakfast Club? Doesn't he know that things go back to normal after detention and Summer needs to maintain her popularity status? After all, her popularity is one of the things he found attractive about her in the first place, innit? Feh.
Ryan and Marissa stare at each other, then bob uncomfortably from side to side. Ryan isn't inquiring as to Marissa's health or well-being or initiating discussion of her family or love-life, so she is at a clear loss for what to talk about, those being the only subjects that exist in her world. By the time she finally decides to say hello, Ryan claims he's late for class and takes off. Boo-yah!
Summer also takes off on Seth when he tries to confront her about ignoring him in front of her cooler friend, and who should saunter out of a nearby classroom than Anna! Wearing a sheer pink tea-cosy with pink bows on it. She's just back from a visit to her hometown of Pittsburgh and surprisingly, she's kind of nice and normal. She's much better as a friend than a sexy-old-lady-inside girlfriend, I think, and her waggling-head problem seems to have been fixed. Really, the interaction between them is really nice and relaxed and I forget my burning hatred of Anna for a bit.
Over with The Adults, Caleb tells Kiki that some friend who works for them -- "Uncle Sean" -- is in dire legal straits for getting drunk and stumbling into a room he shouldn't have been in. Kiki's bemused, probably because she's wearing a white suit with a bright teal-and-black *thing* under it. Seriously, it looks like a halter top made entirely of wrapping paper and tangled fishnet, and it's just so completely wrong I feel embarrassed looking at it. Caleb says he wants Sandy to handle Unca Sean's case, and Kirsten, thank God, tells him that he can ask Sandy himself. I'm glad they're easing up a little on her doing everything Caleb tells her to.
While Anna stalks Seth in the Swanky Student Lounge and dogs him for letting Summer ignore him, Julie Cooper arrives at Harbour High. She strolls on over to Luke's locker and they talk for a bit, him making big cow-eyes at her and her soaking the adoration in until Jimmy comes up. They're there for a parent-teacher conference, and Luke excuses himself in the clumsiest way possible. If Jimmy weren't gifted with a big soft cheese instead of a brain, I'd be worried that he'd be suspicious that something was going on.
Ryan and the World's Best Conversationalist meet up in the Lounge; they hem and haw and finally break down and confess they didn't think that being just friends would be so hard. We should hang out, Ryan offers. Sure, Marissa says, how about tonight? Ryan says he's busy tonight, and Marissa, persistent and understanding girl that she is, is ready to forget the whole thing because Ryan OBVIOUSLY wants nothing to do with her if he can't drop everything to hang out with her. Before she can pull out her party trick, Ryan hurriedly bleats that he's free after school, leading Marissa to say that's more convenient for her anyway because she's supposed to have dinner with her dad. Okay, so if you already had dinner plans, why the fuck were you so put out by Ryan having plans? Arrrrrgh!!! Die! DIE!
Over at The Zodiac (no, I'm never gonna stop calling the restaurant that), Sandy is eating with a contemplative look on his face. I take a moment to recover. Then Caleb comes in and insults Mama Cohen's meatloaf, and I want to take a shovel to Caleb's head. He sits and sketches out the Unca Sean Follies and asks Sandy to take the case; giddy with glee over Caleb asking *him* for a favour, Sandy accepts a copy of the particulars and says only that he'll make some calls and get back to Caleb, who then begs for meatloaf.
Meeting with Dr. Kim over (can these shows never come up with another Korean surname?), Julie Cooper takes a moment to thank Jimmy for doing a good job raising Marissa, because she apparently is getting a good report at school. Jimmy is flabbergasted, and Julie goes on to explain that she's no longer with Caleb but is in a good place in her life. Jimmy continues looking gobsmacked and I tune him out in disgust.
Seth & Summer are in bed, snuggling on her black sheets, and Seth brings up the whole ignoring-in-public thing again. Summer frantically launches into paralleling their relationship to Bennifer, claiming that if they begin having public displays of affection, they'll end up making a flop movie and breaking off the engagement. Seth is dumbfounded by this flurry of insanity and manages to say that since Summer does not have a value clothing line and perfume named after her and he's not playing Daredevil, such public recrimination is not likely, but Summer has her mind made up.
In the Casa del Cohen, Bonyface is trying to play the infamous ninja video game with Ryan and failing miserably. All those surprised by this revelation, go stand in the corner with a dunce cap that says "character non-development" on it. She gives up and then the elusive Rosa shows Theresa in. Rosa is smiling at Theresa like she's the Virgin of Guadalupe, which partly makes me cringe and partly makes me warm inside. Marissa, naturally, begins jerking her limbs all over the sofa and does her party trick. It's just not an episode of the OC without at least one instance of Marissa Storming Off in a Huff!
In the kitchen, Kirsten is wearing her hair pulled back and fastened with a barrette, which is too precious for words. Sandy tries to figure out what, if any, work Unca Sean does for her father's company; Kirsten gives vague job descriptions like him being their "liason" for construction companies and unions and whatnot.
We visit a new location next; the Mermaid Inn, which is tackiness to the umpth level. Just the place for Julie Cooper to shack up with Luke, who is gushingly happy to be there and says all the usual things about how he wishes they could stay there forever. But it is not meant to be, as Julie Cooper gets a frantic phone call from the not-appearing-in-this-episode Caitlyn, who has left her diorama in the house and Luke has to get to school in time for homeroom. The mention of "homeroom" snaps Julie Cooper out of her post-coital daze and she tells Luke that they can't keep doing this. His poor Uruk-hai heart! It's so full of LOVE!! But leave he must, and as he goes down the balcony he passes Theresa, who's staying in the room next to their love nest.
At school, Ryan has lunch with Marissa. She does perhaps the most natural delivery I've ever seen her give, saying that it would've been good if Ryan had told her that Theresa was coming over the night before. I don't agree with that -- what business is it of hers? -- but for once she's not saying it like an accusation and that's good to see. Elsewhere, Anna (wearing a cream princess blouse with pearly buttons over a striped pink long-sleeved jersey, ugh) tells Seth that if he ever wants this relationship with Summer to last, he needs to take a stand. She curses herself for always falling into the role of advisor for "How To Get the Girl Who's Hotter than Me" and to that I say, amen, Anna.
The Zodiac. Sandy comes in and Unca Sean is already there, just sitting and drinking. From the size and rosiness of this guy's nose, he was weaned on whiskey. He starts boasting about how he knew Robert Mitchum and Sandy takes a drink, and then strokes one appreciative hand down his tie. I don't know how to explain the EXCEEDING HOTNESS of that gesture, but suffice it to say that my sister and I both made the same choked, stunned noise and were then useless for the rest of the scene. Plus, he says "slainte" and there are no words to tell you how many of my synapses that melted. As I gather, the room Unca Sean "stumbled into" was one that held records that would be of use to the Newport Group, and Sandy wants nothing to do with the case. Unca Sean's piggy little eyes turn calculating and he smarmily says that if he goes to trial, there's a lot about Caleb's company that could slip out on the stand. The scene ends and my sister asks me to rewind back to THE TIE. I happily comply.
Ryan and Theresa are strolling along the beach, eating ice-cream bars and talking about how different everything is here from back in Chino. They bump and jostle each other and chat and are pretty and sun-soaked and lord, I love them. So much. Over in Summer's room, she pressures him for sex and he decides to go on strike. She is completely floored by this. Sweetie, Seth's gone this far in his life without getting any action; he's pretty much primed for this kind of protest move.
When Ryan gets home from the beach that evening, he finds Eddie, Theresa's boyfriend, sitting out front in his pickup. And when I say "out front", I mean in front of the actual house, in the driveway. "So he's just been there this whole time?" Lori says, confused. "And none of the Cohens came out to see what was going on?" I have no answer for her.
Eddie talks with Ryan for a while; he went to see Trey, this house is amazing, Ryan looks good, and oh, by the way -- has Ryan seen his fiancé, Theresa? Ryan is stunned rigid, but covers for Theresa which I'm glad about. He assures Eddie that if he hears from her, he'll call the poor schtup, and then when Eddie disconsolately leaves Ryan goes to confront Theresa. She just needed some time to sort herself out, she says defiantly, but over the course of the scene you can see Theresa's self-confidence erode and it's really so sad. Eddie, she says, has a good job and can offer her a stable future with him; Ryan protests that at seventeen, she's too young to get married, and Theresa says, "and what's gonna be so different in five years?" Eddie loves her, she says, but the problem is -- she's not in love with him. Poor thing.
In order to cheer her up, Ryan offers to take her out to dinner, warning her, "and don't try to tell me you're not hungry." "You kidding?" Theresa says. "I'm starving!" And now she's won my heart forever. I can't say enough how much I adore these two together. And you can bet your ass she's gonna eat more than a slice of lime for dinner.
Two hours after his initial declaration of strike, Summer shows up at the Casa and tries to convince Seth that if she touches him up, it wouldn't be considered him crossing his own picket line. Seth, however, displays more fortitude than I would've credited him for and stands strong. Good boy!
Next door, Caleb shows up at Julie Cooper's door in the middle of the night, bearing a bunch of flowers and a bunch of platitudes about how they both have needs, and they both need to acknowledge those needs and make them work together, and Julie Cooper's smile upon first seeing him slowly fades. "Is this," she says incredulously, "a booty call?" Caleb channels Barbara Walters talking to Justin about beat...boxing and asks, "What's a...boo-ty call?" Incensed, Julie Cooper throws back his crappy "bunch of mini-carns from Ralph's" and shuts the door to the tune of her cussing him out. Ahahahaha! I fucking love Julie Cooper. She's the best.
Dinner at the Casa. Kirsten is patiently transferring salad from THREE ENORMOUS TRAYS into one big wooden salad bowl; there are two other trays of what look like either shredded red cabbage or red onions on the kitchen island, as well as a trough of spaghetti and two *more* trays filled with breadsticks. What, is Hailey coming to dinner? Clearly still perturbed by his meeting earlier, Sandy asks her if Unca Sean's legendary persuasiveness is carried out with well-chosen words, or with a baseball bat, but he never gets an answer because the kids come in, Theresa in tow.
Over with the Coopers, Marissa is lying disconsolately on the sofa. It reminds me for some reason of Mischa's video with Enrique, probably because her eyes look simultaneously ringed with black and smeared with Vaseline. She's moping over Ryan, of course, and wearing a blouse that even Nancy Sinatra would have rejected, all silky and covered in multicoloured blotches. Jimmy tells her that if she wants to be more than friends with Ryan, she should let him know; with her usual complete lack of understanding that sometimes people need time apart to sort things out, Marissa jumps up and grabs her coat. Le sigh.
She barges in at the Casa and of course, her face falls about a mile when she sees Theresa at the table. My hatred for Marissa rises about sixteen notches because Theresa had been in the middle of a story about her and Ryan when they were sixteen and being all dressed up and him falling down or something, but of course once La Calavera arrives, there's no more story. One of my friends once wrote a character saying, "when I enter a room, conversation dies, and I want to die with it." Marissa has the first part down perfectly; now if only she'd graduate to the second. And then DO IT.
The next morning, Seth waltzes into the poolhouse and sits Ryan down for a little man-to-man talk. Telenovelas and personal experience have learned him that a love triangle is no good; it's pointy, Seth says wisely, and pointy edges hurt people. Ryan's not quite sure what to say to this baffling piece of intel, but it's evident that he thinks some kind of decision needs to be made as well.
Sandy informs Caleb that he won't be taking the case, since he can't defend Unca Sean snooping in other people's files for the benefit of the Newport Group. Caleb intimates that his company has a lot of dirty laundry that Sean might reveal, and Sandy tells him that's his own problem -- until Caleb points out that Kirsten is #2 at the Newport Group, and she'd be in just as much trouble. Caleb Nichol is absolutely disgusting. First he wants Kirsten to break up with Julie Cooper for him, and now he's blackmailing Sandy into getting Unca Sean off because Caleb's shady dealings could take his own daughter down? Ugh. Julie Cooper got out while the getting was good, man.
In the Swank Lounge, Anna is apparently playing Pac-Man. I say "apparently" because while it's been a few months since I played an arcade game, I'm pretty sure that you need BOTH HANDS to successfully play Pac-Man. Summer approaches and timidly tells Anna that she didn't plan it this way, which isn't quite true but then I don't see why Anna's so pissed off because she got Seth in a kind of underhanded way to begin with. She takes Summer to task for ignoring Seth, and Summer confesses that she's terrified Seth with dump her just like all guys do, and if they make their relationship public then her eventual humiliation at his hands will be public too and she can't take that. Oh, she's so sweet. Poor Summer.
At this point, Julie Cooper (in pigtails and a pink cap, with fabulous sunglasses) calls Luke up. "And this," she tells him in an utterly satisfied tone, "is definitely a booty call." Luke couldn't be more excited and scrambles over himself to get there. How long is the average lunch break at Harbour High, anyhow? Luke has time to hie his lusty ass down to the Mermaid Inn, get it on with Julie Cooper, and get back in time for Chem? And apparently, Marissa also has time to head down to the Mermaid for a chat with Theresa (how did Marissa find out where Theresa was staying, anyway?) with no problem. Weh?
Ryan goes back to Chino to see Eddie, since his conscience is twinging him about lying to the guy earlier. He 'fesses up to Eddie that Theresa is hiding out in the OC, trying to come to a decision about the whole engagement situation. Eddie is distressed, because although Theresa didn't give him a concrete answer when he presented her with a ring, he truly does love her and wants her to be his wife. He says as much to Ryan and then asks to know Ryan's intentions, which Ryan can't give him. Eddie simply and nobly informs Ryan that he intends to fight for Theresa's affections, if need be, and goes back to his work. Ryan stares after him, visibly shaken and perhaps in love with Eddie himself at this point.
Marissa whines to Theresa about how she needs to know if there's anything going on between her and Ryan, blah blah it's all about me, go back to Chino where you belong, blah blah. Theresa tells Marissa about being sort-of-engaged to Eddie, which chills the bitch out a little bit, and it's pretty much settled between them that Theresa's going back to get married to Eddie and that the path for Marissa to Ryan will be clear. Content, Marissa leaves, narrowly missing her mother going into the room next to Theresa's.
At the kissing booth, Seth pushes his way to the front and painstakingly climbs up onto the booth, telling Summer that if she doesn't kiss him now and let everybody know that they're dating, they might as well call it quits. The jocks scoff, the cheerleaders titter, the nerds look astounded. Summer looks adorable and conflicted in her little pink-blue-and-yellow striped top, and her hesitance makes sense because although Seth's gesture is, on television, very sweet and brave, when I translate that back to *actual* high school? I would've been just as derisive as the rest of the kids watching. I mean, who *does* that kind of thing?
Anyway, Summer can't resist her emo geek and climbs up on the booth, kissing him to the confusion of most of the students, the horror of the nerds, and the instant adoration of the cheerleaders. They are so cute, dear god help me!!
Ryan gets back into town, the long and tortured drive from Chino over, and goes to see Theresa. She's calm and sad, he's agitated, and he tells her he went to see Eddie and the guy's so much in love with Theresa, she should really go back to him. Theresa agrees. Ryan tells her, "but I don't want you to go back," and yeah, it's all there in his voice because she's something good from back home and he's confused by what he's feeling, and when they kiss it's so hot and sweet that I want to personally tie a Buick to Marissa's ankle and drop her in the Mariana Trench. Not that I don't want to do that all the time, but now I want it like heroin. Viva Telemundo!
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Sandy takes a drink, and then strokes one appreciative hand down his tie.
oh GOD I can't wait to see it! Ahahahahaha!
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Other people are probably going to watch the episode and be like, "wtf?" but I'm sure you will understand completely and fully. ohhhhhhhhh. *swoons*
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Dude, you know Eddie was in the first episode of Buffy? I hope he's playing older than a teen because between 1997 and 2004, the man should get to be at least in his early twenties.
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I'm happier than a stalker outside Lance's house seeing Jessie-e-i-e-o in the window at the notion of Ryan and Teresa all kissyface.
omg eeeeeeee! I love them together, soso much. I will never get over how natural and relaxed he is with her, compared to how constantly vigilant and agitated he is with Marissa. It's unbelievable. I wish Marissa would see them together and come to that conclusion, but of course she won't. grrrrr.
Eddie was in the first episode of Buffy
I knew I'd seen him somewhere other than Six Feet Under! He looked really quite good in the OC, and I'm pretty sure he's at least in his early twenties. I liked him, he was a stand-up guy. Poor Eddie. Theresa left him hanging on the phone at the end to go kiss Ryan! So sad! Understandable, but sad. *g*
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I wish Marissa would not just notice that Ryan is more relaxed around Teresa but realize that someone who falls for you when you're drunk and passed out and still wants you then could probably use some talking to about his own issues. but I live in dreamland. Also, Marissa sucks. But it's to think over and over again she is realizing what a bad gf and friend she is to Ryan and, well, the world. At least partially.
Yuppers. Eddie was Jesse, Xander's best friend who got vamped. Poor Eddie.
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*and* he was Gabe on S1 of Six Feet Under, which if you guys haven't seen should absolutely be your very next rental, 'cause you gonna love it.
Also, Maggie, if you get Showcase, it's on Sunday nights at 10pm Eastern. You'll love it, I promise :)
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It is a great show! (except for that one episode that fucking freaked me out and I'll never watch again where the corpse du episode had the same name as my father. Same name. My mother watches the show as well and she didn't realize it as quickly as my stepfather but dude. List of things guaranteed to make an episode unpalatable is your father's name with the dates he was born and died in the first few minutes. (thankfully the year born was not the same, but still.))
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Heh. Hee hee. LOL!
It is possible to play arcade Pac-Man with one hand. Unless the game has some kind of 'booster' button that causes Pac-Man to go faster if you press it.
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Also, the Marissa bashing makes me laugh. so. hard.
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yes. YES. And when it follows the most inexplicably sexy moment with THE TIE, I was rendered boneless for the rest of the episode. eeeeee!
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'Cuz I do.
Every Monday when I watch the show I sit there the whole time thinking about what you're going to write or how much fun you're gonna make of Bones for what she says!!!!
LOL
Dude I so love you!
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Hee! She makes it easy for me, she really does. I'm guaranteed at least one use of her Special Party Trick per episode, and sometimes there's multipe ones! Whoo-hoo!
*snuggle*
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That was. The most. Awesome. OC writeup. EVER. If only because of a Snow Crash reference. At least I hope that was a Snow Crash reference.
Anyways, you like Futurama and the OC both, and I'd like to read more of these reviews, so I hope you don't mind that I added you to my friends list :)
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It isn't, but dude -- now I've looked up the book and I wish it was! *g*
And you are more than welcome to stick around for my OC recaps; feel free to disregard the high pop-music content that comes up during the rest of the week. Heh.
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Pop music is my guilty pleasure as well...but I try to keep it contained to the gym/workout soundtrack as much as possible.